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2 Dr. Charles Glatfelter, an unpublished script for a slide program on early Adams County, located at the Adams County Historical Society.

  Townsmen of a Stiller Town

  1 Quote is a paraphrase from A.E. Housman's “To an Athlete Dying Young.”

  2 See Ghosts of Gettysburg, “Black Sunset,” p. 59.

  3 See Ghosts of Gettysburg, “The Inn at Cashtown,” p. 72.

  4 This author rode for the National Park Service for four years during that time period. Never, to my knowledge, during the entire time we had the horses, were they ever taken out after dark.

  Fall of the Sparrow

  1 Hill, Douglas and Pat Williams. The Supernatural, p. 85.

  2 Hill, Douglas and Pat Williams. The Supernatural, p. 84.

  Death’s Feast

  1 Ghosts of Gettysburg, p. 26.

  2 See Ghosts of Gettysburg, p. 22 for the details of the battle action in the area, and of the subsequent burial, exhumation of the bodies, and stories of other hauntings in the vicinity.

  3 Jose V. Pimienta. “An Investigation into the Folklore and Apparitions of the Gettysburg College Area,” unpublished paper done in January 1983 for Dr. Charles Emmons’s course in Sociology. Dr. Emmons kindly opened his files to me. It is interesting to read the papers for which I was used as one of the sources for ghost stories I heard of the battlefield in the late 70s and early 80s.

  Pirouettes in Quicksand

  1 See Ghosts of Gettysburg, “The Devil's Den,” p. 19.

  2 The quote comes from an article by A.W. Tucker, “Orange Blossoms,” National Tribune, January 21, 1886, and is cited in an excellent and comprehensive article “Our Principal Loss Was In This Place,” by Kathleen Georg Harrison, in Gettysburg: Historical Articles of Lasting Interest. (Morningside House, Inc. Dayton: July, 1989.) The Orange Blossoms was the rather unusual nickname for the 124th New York Regiment.

  3 The quote is from New York at Gettysburg, vol. 2, pp. 869-870, once again collected for her article “Our Principal Loss...” by Kathleen Georg Harrison.

  4 From an unpublished letter entitled “The Last 24 Hours of General John F. Reynolds,” by Charles H. Veil, April 7,1864.

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  O Death, old captain, it is time! Set Sail!

  This land palls on us, Death! Let's put to sea!

  If sky and ocean are black as coal,

  You know our hearts are full of brilliancy!

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  Pour forth your poison, our deliverance!

  This fire consumes our minds, let's bid adieu,

  Plumb Hell or Heaven, what's the difference?

  Plumb the Unknown, to find out something new/

  —Charles Baudelaire

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  Chapter 17: About the Author

  Mark Nesbitt was a National Park Service Ranger/Historian for five years at Gettysburg before starting his own research and writing company. Since then he has published over fifteen books, including the national award-winning Ghosts of Gettysburg series. His stories have been seen on The History Channel, A&E, The Discovery Channel, The Travel Channel, Unsolved Mysteries, and numerous regional television shows and heard on Coast to Coast AM, and regional radio. In 1994, he created the commercially successful Ghosts of Gettysburg Candlelight Walking Tours,, and in 2006, the Ghosts of Fredericksburg Tours.

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